MONTECITO (California), Jan 10 ― Roughly 25,000 people in California were ordered evacuated yesterday, including the entire town of Montecito and nearby areas of the Santa...
MONTECITO , Jan 10 ― Roughly 25,000 people in California were ordered evacuated yesterday, including the entire town of Montecito and nearby areas of the Santa Barbara coast, due to heightened flood and mudslide hazards from a recent string of deadly storms, officials said.
Among the nearly 9,000 residents of Montecito with opulent homes in the picturesque coastal enclave are such celebrities as media mogul Oprah Winfrey and Britain's Prince Harry and his wife Meghan. It was not immediately clear whether they were among those forced to flee the area. Winfrey was known to have been in Hawaii over the New Year's holiday.
At least a dozen fatalities have been attributed to several back-to-back storms that have lashed California since December 26, including a toddler killed when a redwood tree was blown over his family's trailer home last week. The torrential rains, along with heavy snow in mountain areas, were the product of yet another “atmospheric river” of dense moisture funnelled into California from the tropical Pacific, powered by sprawling low-pressure systems churning offshore.
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